Based on faith, I do believe in the creation account".
In Genesis 1-2, for instance, we have not one but two creation accounts, which differ from one another in important ways.
The P material is to be found not merely in Leviticus but throughout the Tetrateuch, including the early chapters of Genesis and one of the creation accounts and ranging from the primeval history (Adam to Noah) to the Mosaic era.
If so, how do you square the two varying Creation accounts found early in Genesis with the recent scientific evidence that humans interbred with Neanderthals, and that the human genome includes a significant percentage of Neanderthal genes?
After the Apollo 8 crew had read out the Genesis creation account in orbit, O'Hair wanted a ban on Nasa astronauts practising religion on earth, in space or "around and about the moon" while on duty.
A number of important traditions associated with animals occur in dualistic creation accounts in which animals oppose creation, acting as a foil to the creator, or creation is accomplished by combat between the creator and animal monsters representative of chaos who must be slain or bound before the world can be established.
Actually, there are two creation accounts: the first (1 2:4), ascribed to P, simply gives a terse day-by-day account including the culminating creation of human beings, in the divine "image and likeness," followed by the primordial sabbath on the seventh day.
Burnet sought to reconcile a Cartesian-derived historical account of the origins of the Earth with the creation account of the Mosaic tradition.
Thus, the temporal doctrine of creation accounts not only for the temporal origin of contingent things, but for every feature of contingent reality at its beginning.
And yet how many Intelligent Design proponents would be content to have polytheistic creation accounts taught alongside their monotheistic accounts as plausible alternatives to evolution?
